No special rates for out-of-district haulers
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WORLAND – The Washakie County Solid Waste Disposal District (landfill) Board paid bills and had a discussion about landfill rates with an out-of-district business at their scheduled meeting Monday night.
Dalin Winters, owner of Roadrunner Sanitation Inc. based out of Burlington, came to the solid waste meeting to discuss rate plans based on volumes for in and out-of-district waste. Roadrunner is a municipal waste hauler for in and out of county.
Winters said, “I would like to bring increased volumes of waste in your landfill,” and added that his company could bring 52,000 pounds a week to the landfill from roll off containers.
Board Chairmen Travis Filler said, “Municipal haulers are by the ton presently, everything else is by the yard until we get our scale in ... and its revenue based when we’ll get that in.”
“In the past, we were bringing in one load of garbage in a month … now we’re bringing in one a week,” Winters said. “We’d like to know what we can expect with rates if we do bring increased volumes in.”
“We’d like to keep the waste in Wyoming, if possible,” he added. “But we would like to get the best deal for our customers.”
“I guess when you get to the point of bringing numbers were willing to sit down, look, learn and listen. Let’s put it that way,” Filler said.
Landfill Manager Gene Cliame informed Winters that in district haulers pay a mill levy fee, and a rate charge for out-of-district rates would need to be decided. He also informed Winters of rate change starting in April.
“We know it’s coming, but we haven’t sat down and worked through a number yet,” Filler said in reference to out of district hauler rates.
Last month, Black Hills Bentonite asked if something could be done with their charges at the landfill, and Cliame expressed concern about finding a special flat rate or doing something different with Black Hills.
Board member Doug Walker said, “If we start making too many deals, other businesses, and customers, will want it too.”
Filler ended the conversation saying, “As a board we should sit on it, leave it the way we established it to cut down the squabbling and fighting, and we’re really only a couple of months away from a scale.”
“Once we get a scale that will be fair for everyone,” Cliame said at last month’s landfill meeting.
Due to the way the month fell, the board signed off and paid bills for the months of February and March, and the board made a motion to pay all the bills.
